Can Trump’s hush money conviction be overturned after Supreme Court immunity ruling?

Just hours after the Supreme Court granted Donald Trump absolute immunity for “official acts” while in office, the former president’s lawyers made moves to try to get his conviction in his hush money criminal trial overturned.

The 78-year-old former president was found guilty on May 30 on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records over hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in order to quash claims of an affair ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Trump could now face up to several years in jail, probation, community service, hefty fines or some combination of penalties for the charges.

Following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, Trump’s team is arguing this conviction should be tossed.

On Monday, Trump’s legal team scurried to send a letter to Justice Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over the case, asking him to throw out the guilty verdict.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office responded on Tuesday arguing that Trump’s arguments to do so are “without merit” – but said that prosecutors do not oppose the former president’s request to push back the July 11 sentencing date by two weeks, requesting a final deadline of July 24 to file all legal arguments in the case.

But is this just a baseless, desperate attempt from Trump to quash the Republican presidential candiate’s conviction in the 11th hour, or might the defense have a case?

Duncan Levin, a criminal defense attorney and former senior official at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, toldThe Independent that the Supreme Court’s ruling is “unlikely to change anything at all”.

“There’s really no credible argument that can be made that covering up the payment of hush money to a porn star is part of the core constitutional